Just bought a 64 bit notebook (no optical drive) but booting 601 from a Live CD perfectly with no issues. Don't want to carry a USB optical drive, so I have found Grub4Dos works for me to load the ISO CD config from a USB. So far so good, and this is the path I want. I will have a USB resource that I can carry and hopefully use with any 64 bit machine I encounter, as if it was a "Live CD".

I want to maintain a primary boot that is not configured beyond the distro ISO.

Next step is to figure out how to create a pause in the boot sequence where I can load the audio-all-in-one-amd64-10.sfs if the machine I am using merits that. So far, my reading nor my hacking at is has been successful.

Do not edit the DISTRO_IDSTRING in DISTRO_SPECS ---> it's generated automatically at remaster.

If you get option to edit /tmp/etc at remaster process do copy the /etc/DISTRO_SPECS to /tmp/etc/

Here is the original Lucid 528-4 DISTRO_SPECS file:

Code:

#One or more words that identify this distribution:
DISTRO_NAME='Lucid '
#A three-digit numeric value, version number of this distribution:
DISTRO_VERSION=528
#A two-digit numeric value, minor-version number of this distribution:
DISTRO_MINOR_VERSION=00
#The distro whose binary packages were used to build this distribution:
DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT='ubuntu'
#Prefix for some filenames: exs: lupusave.2fs, lupu-528.sfs
DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX='lupu'
#The version of the distro whose binary packages were used to build this distro:
DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION='lucid'
#the kernel pet package used:
DISTRO_KERNEL_PET='linux_kernel-2.6.33.2-tickless_smp_patched-L3.pet'
#16-byte alpha-numeric ID-string appended to vmlinuz, lupu_528.sfs, zl528332.sfs and devx.sfs:
DISTRO_IDSTRING='l528121019101928'
#Puppy default filenames...
#Note, the 'SFS' files below are what the 'init' script in initrd.gz searches for,
#for the partition, path and actual files loaded, see PUPSFS and ZDRV in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
DISTRO_PUPPYSFS='lupu_528.sfs'
DISTRO_ZDRVSFS='zl528332.sfs'

I think, it's obviously what I've had changed. At editing the files DISTRO_SPECS is opened twice in geany (or leafpad). One is from the initrd.gz, the other is from the running system. Make sure both are saved with equal content.

Inside the remaster script (usually remasterpup2 in Puppy) search for this code (main thing is MKZDRV):

I have forgot to mention something in my last PM about building a ISO with a graphical boot menu.

I have build (just for fun and testing) earlier this year a LazY Puppy Multiboot DVD that contains all sfs files plus a LazY Puppy Win Installer which contains also all sfs files and installs LazY Puppy frugal with all sfs files in windows.

No SFS file and a initrd (not initrd.gz) sized 198 MB. It seems not to be a SFS (tried to rename and then to open) and it seems not be a .GZ file (tried to rename ant to open with the Edit-inird.gz tool). Nothing works.

That's really different. What file type is this intrd?

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Unfortunately, it looks to me that nothing of the above can be used in FatDog.